OrangeHRM

[jsable]

I have been trying to get this program to install on ubuntu 10.04 (32) and have installed all of the required dependencies, but when I open the web browser and type in the address, it just downloads a php script and does not run the browser web install. This is a great program and I have used it and installed it on a windows box, but I am now only running linux and would like to continue using this program.
The company does not offer a "howto" on installing it from linux, and I am looking for a little help. I have tried other websites but have not had any luck. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
John

[falko]

Did you install PHP? Which tutorial (URL) did you use to set up the system?

[jsable]

Yes, php is installed, this is the link to the tutorial that I used, but I cannot help to think that I missed something..

http://felimwhiteley.wordpress.com/2...hrm-on-ubuntu/

I posted the question at the end.

~John

[dipeshmehta]

Originally Posted by jsable

The company does not offer a "howto" on installing it from linux, and I am looking for a little help.

Have you checked http://www.orangehrm.com/frequently-...stions.shtml#5 ?

[jsable]

dipeshmehta,

Thank you for the link, I could not find that when I looked for it I think because I was looking for the web install. It appears that my problem is with apache, there is no user "apache" and there is no group for users under "apache". When I tried the chown command, I got:

john@MediaPita:/var/www$ sudo chown apache /var/www/orangehrm
chown: invalid user: `apache'

I am sure that there is something else I missed.

~John

[dulitha]

Hi

If it fails try one of below.

chown -R apache:apache /location
chmod -R 755 /location

or

chown -R www-data /location
chmod -R 755 /location

If above failed please try to uninstall apache php and mysql and try to install lamp stack.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

Use OrangeHRM latest stable version which is 2.6.

Regards,
Dulitha.

[jsable]

Dulitha,
Thank you for the reply, I was able to find out that in Ubuntu, there is no user or group for "apache", the group is "www-data". Once I changed ownership to this group, the program worked as advertised.

thanks for all the help!